TANUSRI R.P SAMY VISUAL CULTURE INTERMEDIATE PROJECT Perception and Composition. The painting I have chosen represents the formal elements that reflect on a new modern art movement pre and post independent India. The artist is Jamini Roy and the painting is named: "Drummers” Shri Jamini Roy
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HINDUISM -oldest religion in the world - predates recorded history - has no human founder. History The word Hindu is of ancient Persian origin to describe people who lived beyond the River Indus and their religion. Was created through the intermixing to two distinct cultures involving the Aryans and the Indus Valley civilisation. At about 1500 B.C‚ the Aryan invaded India and imposed their religious themes on the Indian natives. Hinduism spread in the world through literature and folklore. It
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In fact‚ they traced their lineage the great conquers Genghis Kahn and Timur. The fundamental differences between Hinduism and the Islamic religion of India’s foreign rulers were bound to create conflict. However‚ the Mughal King Akbar‚ endorsed Hindu culture and sought to be as religiously tolerant as possible. The Mughals introduced many new things to Indian culture‚ one being monumental tomb architecture such as the world-famous Taj-Mahal. Hindus and Buddhist always cremated their dead so
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Indian in a nationwide poll held by History TV and CNN-IBN.[3][4] Born into a poor Mahar (considered an Untouchable caste) family‚ Ambedkar campaigned against social discrimination‚ the system of Chaturvarna – the categorization of Hindu society into four varnas – and the Hindu caste system. He converted to Buddhism and is also credited with providing a spark for the transformation of hundreds of thousands of Dalits or untouchables to Theravada Buddhism. Ambedkar was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna
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Their beliefs and practices are horrendous and nauseating. They do not get recognition as some other cults have gotten‚ such as the Ku Klux Wan‚ but they definitely can be classified as bizarre and unstable people. The Aghori is a Hindu sect‚ which came into order in the 14th century off the Kaplika. They indulge in all forms of extreme ritual worship practices such as cannibalism‚ consumption of alcohol and opium‚ black magic‚ as well as worshipping in haunted places. They also reside
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India‚ the land lying on the southern side of the Hindu-Kush Mountains was considered the land of the Hindus or Hindustan and the religion followed by the people there was known as Hinduism. It is a religion that is based upon Aryan settlers. The Hindu people believe that their religion has no beginning and no end. It consists of "thousands of different religious groups that have evolved in India since 1500 BCE." Because of the wide variety of Hindu traditions‚ freedom of belief and practice are notable
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PMH0015 ~ MALAYSIAN LEGAL HISTORY SAMPLE QUESTION AND ANSWER 1 The Hindu-Buddhist political control and cultural influence ended with the expansion of Islam into South-East Asia sometimes in the 13th century. Malacca became a Muslim kingdom under Sultan Iskandar Shah and by the end of the 15th century she had become a power of great importance in South-East Asia. Discuss. (15 marks) SUGGESTED ANSWER The Hindu-Buddhist political control and cultural influence ended with the expansion
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of Indian society are as follows: Hindu way of life: Hindu religion is the indigenous religion of India. And it is said that tolerance and non-violence of Hindu way of life shape the nation to its present form. Our society has been projected as a traditional society based on spiritual believes giving less importance to material growth. But it is not true at all. Today we are going towards secular‚ modern and stronger nation. It is true that the traditional Hindu society believed in scribed status
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Partition – The Greed Perspective History of the Lahore has seen hundreds of turns and twists‚ some of which changed its contour and brought new definitions to it. One such incident was the partition of the subcontinent‚ leading to the century’s biggest population transfer. Lahore being one of the cities adjacent to the new drawn boundary was drastically affected by the massive migration on both sides. Apart from the issue of refugee inflow‚ partition brought a radical change in the socio-cultural
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Dalit Empowerment in India: Dalits movement for empowerment started way back during second half of the nineteenth century with reformatory efforts to uplift the backward groups of Indian society‚ especially ‘Dalits’. Later on‚ it turned into seeking state intervention and generating the idea of paying special attention to Dalits/untouchables. Dalits/Untouchables have been described as “The oppressed of the oppressed and lowest of the low”‚ who have not been benefited from the opening up of modern
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